Automotive News back issues from February 1997:
Point spread: with rising spending power and a growing population, Hispanics argue they're entitled to more dealerships.
Feb 03, 1997; ... When Javier Sanchez found out six years ago that Ford Motor Co. had granted him a dealership, he was "ready to go, ready to show them I could do it."To Sanchez, who came to the United States from Mexico when he was 12, this was the American dream coming true.It didn't ...
U.S. makers fret as dollar soars. (automobile manufacturers)
Feb 03, 1997; ... TOKYO - As the dollar crashed through 120 yen last week to levels not seen since February 1993, alarms began tripping from here to Washington to Detroit."It has become a runaway train that is threatening serious market disruption," complained Andrew Card Jr., president of the ...
UAW: unionize seat industry. (United Automobile Workers)
Feb 03, 1997; ... The strike that forced Ford Motor Co. to stockpile unfinished Expeditions last week is part of a larger battle: The UAW wants the U.S. seat industry as a union preserve.Much of that effort is aimed at Johnson Controls Inc. - a big U.S. seat maker with a small union presence. And ...
Navigator unit on the block. (Rockwell Automotive to sell Driver Information Systems unit)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Rockwell Automotive wants to sell its Driver Information Systems unit, which makes onboard navigators. Although the company sold 7,500 Neverlost navigators to Hertz, it has had trouble generating demand outside the rental ...
Chevy ad blitz backs Venture. (Chevrolet Motor Div.; Venture minivan)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Chevrolet will give its new Venture minivan an estimated $50 million advertising blitz.The national campaign breaks in mid-February for the Venture, ...
Big 3 and feds split on deaths. (deaths caused by depowered airbags)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... The Big 3 are locked in a dispute with federal regulators over the number of motorists who might die in accidents if airbags are "depowered." Safety regulators have estimated that 1,200 motorists who don't use seat belts could die each year if automakers design airbags ...
Hendrick has cancer, asks to have trial moved. (auto dealer Rick Hendrick)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Rick Hendrick, 47, the largest auto dealer in America, disclosed last week that he has cancer.Hendrick has been diagnosed with a form of bone-marrow cancer known as chronic myelogenous leukemia. In a letter distributed to 4,500 employees nationwide, Hendrick said that doctors have ...
GM still seeks to dump dealer. (General Motors Corp.; dealer Jim Williams)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... General Motors plans to continue trying to revoke the Oldsmobile franchise of San Diego dealer Jim Williams.Arguing that it can terminate the franchise of a convicted felon, GM tried to do so after Williams pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice last March. But the Superior Court ...
Ford draws up Bronco II offer. (Ford Motor Co.)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Ford Motor Co. has reached a tentative settlement of eight class-action suits on behalf of 658,000 Bronco II owners who alleged that rollover problems diminished the value of their vehicles.Ford would offer all owners free safety inspections and safety kits with videos discussing ...
Lender reeling after earnings gaffe. (Mercury Finance Co.)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... CHICAGO - Only last November, Mercury Finance Co. President and CEO John Brincat was referring to his auto-lending firm as "the Cadillac of the industry" and crowing about its long-term earnings prospects: "We have some pro formas that are mind-boggling."Mercury, of Lake Forest, ...
VW to car buyers: join the club. (Volkswagen of America Inc.'s VW Club)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Volkswagen of America Inc. has created a company-sponsored club to establish a bond with car buyers.The VW Club is aimed primarily at VW owners in the United States and Canada, but is open to anyone for a $25 annual fee.Club benefits include: * A 30-minute, ...
Olds tests micro-stores in bustling retail areas. (Oldsmobile)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... When it comes to dealerships, bigger is not necessarily better.That's the word from Oldsmobile, which is experimenting with a new concept: dealerships that are physically smaller than the average Oldsmobile store and have everything regular-sized dealerships have except a body ...
Suit fights Republic purchase of AutoNation. (Republic Industries Inc.; AutoNation USA)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... A dissident shareholder has sued Republic Industries Inc., claiming H. Wayne Huizenga and other officers unfairly reaped a windfall from Republic's purchase of Auto-Nation USA.The suit was filed Jan. 17 by David Jackowitz of Florida. He seeks to undo the purchase agreement or at ...
Pininfarina to build Mitsubishi sport-ute for Europe.(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... TOKYO - Italy's Industrie Pininfarina S.p.A. will produce an all-new, small sport-utility for Mitsubishi Motors Corp. that will be sold in Europe, the two companies disclosed last week.Under terms of the eight-year contract, Pininfarina will turn out 35,000 vehicles a year at its ...
Frame supplier A.O Smith ends century-long auto link.
Feb 03, 1997; ... After nearly a century, A.O. Smith Corp. is quitting the automotive supplier ratrace.Smith, a leading supplier of frames, agreed last week to sell its automotive unit to Tower Automotive Inc. With it goes a heritage that dates back to 1899, when founder Arthur O. Smith fabricated ...
At Tom's, meals help close deals. (Courtesy Chevrolet's diner)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Tom Roulette, a Chevrolet dealer in San Jose, Calif., has an antidote for showroom phobia: a diner.Last year, he built a 20-seat diner in the back of his showroom. It is now a safe haven for customers fried by stress and information overload."They can go back there and ...
Chrysler pulls Big 3 to strong '96 profit as strikes hurt GM.(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Strikes at General Motors in 1996 headed a long list of industry "special events" that derailed what could have been a near-record year for Big 3 profits.Work stoppages cost GM $1.2 billion in 1996 net income - roughly half the profit it would have made in North America without the ...
Honda hopes new CR-V will win back defectors. (Sport-utility vehicle)
Feb 03, 1997; ... LOS ANGELES - How important have sport-utilities become to American car buyers?By not having one in its lineup until recently, American Honda Motor Co. was losing as many as 140,000 potential repeat customers a year to automakers that could supply them, Honda executives disclosed ...
Trucks are stars at Chicago show. (1997 Chicago Auto Show)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Trucks rule in Chicago this week.Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, GMC and Lexus will unveil new production or concept trucks during press days for the Chicago Auto Show, Wednesday through Friday, Feb. 5-7. The show is open to the public Feb. 8-16.Not that the show win be devoid of ...
Olds opens ad blitz to bolster Bravada.(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Oldsmobile, for the first time, is teaming with dealers to promote the Bravada. The division has begun a major, coordinated advertising marketing campaign to double sales of the sport-utility in the Pacific Northwest.Olds' marketing department is using its creative department ...
Lexus tops with dealers in Canada.(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... TORONTO - Canada's Lexus dealers are happy. Chevrolet/Oldsmobile and Mazda dealers aren't.Those polar opposites pretty well define the top and bottom standings of the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association's latest annual survey of how dealers feel about their franchises. ...
Peterson, Gieszl: dealers still key. (National Automobile Dealers Association outgoing president John Peterson; Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. Executive VP Yale Gieszl)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... CarMax and AutoNation be damned; the franchised new-car dealer will continue to be the cornerstone of automotive retailing in the United States, Toyota's top U.S. executive said.His comments were echoed by John Peterson, outgoing president of the National Automobile Dealers ...
Workshop will discuss 401(k) plan. (sponsored by the National Automobile Dealers and Associates)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... The National Automobile Dealers and Associates Retirement Trust has introduced an upgraded 401(k) plan to help dealerships compete with the growing number of employers offering the popular retirement programs."We're trying to become as state-of-the-art as we can," said Carl ...
TV ad competition awards dealers for enticing commercials. (Television Bureau of Advertising's Automotive TV Commercial Competition)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... ATLANTA - The use of celebrities did not guarantee a highly rated commercial in the Television Bureau of Advertising's Automotive TV Commercial Competition.The judges gave high scores based on whether or not a commercial would entice consumers to visit the dealership. They found ...
Image-building ads from dealerships win Dandy awards. (Newspaper Association of America's Dandy dealership newspaper advertising contest)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... ATLANTA - Image ads were the trend in the Newspaper Association of America's Dandy dealership newspaper advertising contest."Most of the entries tried to build an image for their dealerships and their brands," said Bob Scaife, manager of automotive advertising at the association. ...
What NADA did for its members in 1996. (National Automobile Dealers Association)
Feb 03, 1997; ... The retail automobile industry has seen more than its share of challenges over the past century, but none more profound than the sweeping changes it faced in 1996.As the year began, the emergence of big corporate retailers, plans by manufacturers to "streamline" their distribution ...
Parts sales soar after dealer adds Internet link. (World Chevrolet)(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Bob Vanderploeg, a 20-year auto dealership parts department manager and spare-time computer whiz, knows the power of the Internet and has figured out a way to harness that energy for his dealership's parts department.He wrote a computer program and persuaded his boss, Clarence ...
Ford of Canada tests quick-service concept.(Brief Article)
Feb 03, 1997; ... TORONTO - Moving to recapture a slice of the business lost each year to aftermarket shops, Ford of Canada is testing a concept here for what could become a U.S.- and Canada-wide chain of quick-service outlets.Called Fast Lane, the dealer-owned service outlets provide the same type ...
Toyota tests program to boost bump shop profit. (Toyota Motors Sales U.S.A. Inc.)
Feb 03, 1997; ... To help dealers get more customer referrals from insurance companies, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. will certify dealership body shops.Four Toyota dealerships are piloting the program, which is part of Toyota's strategy to support dealership collision repair, said Roger Foss, ...
3 medium suppliers lift quality, slash costs. (Bosch Automotive Motor Systems Corp.; Dana Corp.; Fayette Tubular Products Inc.)(Automotive News PACE Awards 1997 Finalists)
Feb 03, 1997 ... Suppliers can deliver innovation in any number of ways.Robert Bosch's Automotive Motor Systems used recycled materials to assemble a fan system. Dana Corp.'s Spicer Division improved a transmission. Fayette Tubular Products created a defect-free assembly process.A common ...
Dealers optimistic for '97 and don't fear superstores.(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... Maybe they're just whistling as they walk by the cemetery at midnight, but auto dealers are not afraid of being eaten alive by the big, bad CarMax or the even bigger and badder AutoNation USA.That was the near-unanimous opinion of three dozen dealers profiled by Automotive News for ...
Alabama: successful dealer must take risks. (Blount Strange Motors)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... MONTGOMERY (POP. 195,471)When Todd Strange agreed to go into the ear business in 1990, he firmly believed the recession was over. Within a year, the Gulf war began, and the resulting economic slowdown left Strange and his partner, Winton Blount III, under pressure.Rather ...
Arizona: lousy location, terrific sales. (Brown and Brown Chevrolet, Brown and Brown Nissan)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... MESA (POP. 313,649)"We have probably the worst location of any Chevy dealer in town," observed Henry Brown without a hint of irony."We are hard to get to. We are not near the freeway. The traffic is congested out front, and there is nothing else in downtown Mesa to bring ...
California: 68-year deal clings to tested philosophy. (McLean Cadillac-Oldsmobile-GMC)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... TUSTIN (POP. 58,480)Michael McLean, president of McLean Cadillac-Oldsmobile-GMC in Tustin, Calif., is a third-generation car dealer. His grandfather opened the dealership in 1939. While much has changed, the underlying business philosophy remains essentially the same."We ...
Colorado: '96 volume at 4 dealers tops $300 million. (Chesrown Stores)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... DENVER (POP. 493,559)Projected population growth for Colorado, tied to indications the state's dealership numbers will remain the same, bodes well for Marshall Chesrown, owner of four domestic dealerships in the Denver metropolitan area.The boom in Ford, Dodge and ...
Florida: store is on the mend; her goal is growth. (South Lake Ford; owner Gail Bohannon)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... CLERMONT (POP. 8,631)It seems improbable that a person with no experience in running a new-car dealership could turn a money-losing, low-volume Ford store into a growing, successful business.But Gail Bohannon, president of South Lake Ford, is a most extraordinary ...
Georgia: she traded banking for a dealership. (Southlake Buick-Volvo-Subaru owner Peggy Cockerham)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... MORROW (POP. 5,402)There's a good chance one of the first people to greet you at Southlake Buick-Volvo-Subaru in Morrow, Ga., will be a saleswoman. In a business dominated by men, a large percentage of the 55 Southlake employees are women.There's a push to bring women ...
Illinois: little guy carries on in big Chrysler world. (Lou's Jeep Sales and Service)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... GENEVA (POP. 14,682)When rice was 3 cents a pound, sugar was 6 cents a pound and milk in a glass bottle with the cream on top was 6 cents a quart, Lou Fortman acquired a Jeep franchise for $2,000, hoping one day it would amount to something.Fifty years later, his ...
Indiana: what you see is what we sell. (Larry Bird Ford-Lincoln-Mercury)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... MARTINSVILLE (POP. 12,341)John Walton places much value on the personal touch. It's visible immediately at Larry Bird Ford-Lincoln-Mercury in Martinsville, Ind., where Walton is managing partner and dealer principal.The dealership is a four-way partnership. Former Boston ...
Iowa: half-century dealer wants more trucks. (Rotman Motor Co. Inc.)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... MAQUOKETA (POP. 6,517)At the end of the century, Carl Rotman will leave a business that has treated him well for more than 50 years.In an agricultural community where light trucks sell as well as cars, he plans to pass on his dealership legacy to a new generation. ...
Kentucky: Blair knows numbers; he started as a CPA. (Courtesy Auto Plex owner Tommy Blair)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... PADUCAH (POP. 26,749)Most auto dealers come up through the sales ranks, but Tommy Blair of Paducah, Ky., did things a little differently. He's a certified public accountant and was with Ernst & Ernst before taking a job in 1967 as office manager for Music City Dodge in Nashville. ...
Louisiana: he's a 30-year dealer, but it was an accident. (Capitol Buick-GMC owner Clark Springs)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... BATON ROUGE (POP. 227,482)Clark Springs, 54, considers himself an "accidental car dealer."Springs started a small trucking business, transporting precast concrete and reinforced steel pipe, when he finished college at Louisiana State University with a degree in business ...
Massachusetts: right from the start, he put service first. (Cambridge Motorcar Co. owner Andy Bellizia)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... CAMBRIDGE (POP. 99,890)Andy Bellizia did not go to Harvard or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both of which are virtually in the backyard of his Honda-Chevrolet dealerships in Cambridge, Mass.Even so, he says, he was smart enough 20 years ago, at age 24, to ...
Michigan: a lot of history in the neighborhood. (Bill Snethkamp Chrysler-Plymouth-Jeep-Eagle Inc.)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... HIGHLAND PARK (POP. 20,053)Bill Snethkamp Chrysler-Plymouth-Jeep-Eagle Inc. sits in the midst of an urban neighborhood that has seen a lot of American automotive history.Less than a mile down the road is the old Ford Motor Co. Highland Park plant. Built in 1913 by Henry ...
Minnesota: a family dealership in a metro area. (Park Jeep-Eagle)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... BURNSVILLE (POP. 54,525)To the casual observer, Park Jeep-Eagle appears to be a typical, successful, family-run new-car dealership. And it is.But this stand-alone Jeep-Eagle dealership has a rainbow of unique characteristics that can be described as quaint and antiquated ...
Minnesota: Saturn satellite sells up a storm. (Saturn of Golden Valley/Bloomington/Brooklyn Park/Satellite)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... MINNEAPOLIS (POP. 354,590)After an hour-long delivery process on the showroom floor, the new-car buyer climbs behind the wheel of a new Saturn, starts the engine and drives out the door to a boisterous cheer from a dozen sales, service and office staff members:"We say, ...
Missouri: he learned the job at his father's knee. (Randy Reed Pontiac-Buick-GMC manager Randy Reed)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... KANSAS CITY (POP.443,878)Randy Reed learned about the car business as a 10-year-old from his father, who ran a General Motors dealership and a feed store in the small town of Winterset, Iowa.In such a setting, the notion of taking advantage of customers was foreign; most ...
Nevada: 'I'll try it for a year' - that was in 1955. (Gaudin Ford)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... LAS VEGAS (POP. 327,878)Las Vegas Ford dealer Don Ackerman figures he could have been a millionaire several times over had he invested in prime Las Vegas real estate when he came to town more than 40 years ago.He remembers driving past the Desert Inn golf course when it ...
New Hampshire: collecting franchises doesn't interest him. (Gary Blake Saab owner Gary Blake)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... EXETER (POP. 12,430)Gary Blake never aspired to be all things to all people.Instilled with the old-fashioned New England Yankee tradition of "do it right or not at all," the idea of becoming a multiline dealer never appealed to him.He's not against having ...
New Jersey: family auto history goes back 54 years. (Bob Ciasulli Auto Group)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... LITTLE FALLS (POP. 11,294)Driving along U.S. Route 46 in Little Falls, N.J., you cannot miss the thriving dealerships owned and operated by Robert Ciasulli, president of Bob Ciasulli Auto Group.For 54 years and three generations, Bob Ciasulli's family has been dedicated ...
New Jersey: Audi-only dealership is off to fast start. (Audi of Bernardsville)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... BERNARDSVILLE (POP. 6,914)In 1985, when Paul Reynolds won an Audi sales trip to Cancun, Mexico, his first thought was to play golf. The first evening, straight from the golf course and running late for dinner, Reynolds had a stroke of pure luck.When Reynolds and his ...
New Mexico: Cannole runs show for astronaut Borman. (Borman Automotive Group managing partner Jeff Canole; astronaut Frank Borman)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... LAS CRUCES (POP. 71,043)Jeff Cannole's know-how in the automotive business has sent profits skyrocketing for Bonnan Automotive Group in Las Cruces, N.M. Cannole is the managing partner in dealerships owned jointly with former astronaut Frank Borman.Cannole was working ...
New Mexico: she's a Galles, and she's a dealer. (Friday Motors owner Judi Friday)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... TAOS (POP. 4,433)Judi Friday is nobody's girl Friday, although it took her four decades to realize that and to become general manager of Friday Motors (Chevrolet-Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac) in Taos, N.M.Never mind that she is the great-granddaughter of Herbert Galles, who ...
New York: 'now I can give back,' says Johnson. (Bob Johnson Chevrolet owner Bob Johnson)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... ROCHESTER (POP. 231,170)Bob Johnson enrolled in General Motors' affirmative action program nearly 20 years ago and hasn't looked back.He had been selling insurance for Allstate but decided that owning an auto dealership would he more interesting - and more lucrative. GM ...
New York: he stressed CSI before the crowd. (West-Herr Automotive Group co-owner Brad Hafner)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... BUFFALO (POP. 312,965)Brad Hafner, 68, and Scott Bieler, 42, are not related, but their 13-year business relationship has brought them together like father and son.As co-owners of West-Herr Automotive Group in Buffalo, N.Y., they share a similar philosophy about running ...
N. Carolina: he trained at Sears and at Chrysler. (Metrolina Dodge, Diamond Chevrolet-Isuzu and Metrolina Kia owner Reginald Hubbard)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... CHARLOTTE (POP. 437,797)At 27, Reginald Hubbard was the youngest operations manager in his region for Sears. With a degree in management and a minor in psychology, he had some definite ideas about the retail business, and he didn't like the direction Sears was going.On a ...
Oregon: dealer is a tailor; he custom fits cars. (Town and Country Dealerships owner Ralph Martinez)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... PORTLAND (POP. 450,777)"We're all tailors in the ear industry. Our job is to custom fit each deal to each customer." That's the attitude that Ralph Martinez, owner of the Town & Country Dealerships in Portland, Ore., wants all his employees to share.Martinez, a ...
Pennsylvania: profits up despite steel town's woes. (Babe Charapp Ford)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... McKEESPORT (POP. 25,121)Ron Charapp sells Fords on a hill above the ruins of the USX National Tube works, one of many grim monuments to the economic collapse of the steelmaking valley through which the Monongahela River flows to Pittsburgh.He is a successful dealer in ...
Pennsylvania: 3rd-generation trio runs family deals. (Ray Price Dealers)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... THE POCONOSTo hear these three guys joke around, you'd never guess there was money involved, or the legacy of one of the oldest Ford and one of the oldest Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in the country, plus an expanding roster of dealerships in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountain area. ...
Quebec: Dupont clears snow; he's a hands-on guy. (Des Sources Dodge-Chrysler)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... DOLLARD-DES-ORMEAUXTo J. Marcel Dupont, being a hands-on operator means literally to strap on a pair of boots, fire up his big, diesel-powered loader and get on with removing a fresh-fallen foot of snow from his sizable lot."I do it myself any chance I get," he said. "I ...
Rhode Island: smallest state to have huge used-car store. (Norwood Motor Group)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... WARWICK (POP. 86,006)Thomas Ricci, Rhode Island's largest megadealer in one location, is about to open the state's first specifically designed used-car superstore as well.Ricci heads Norwood Motor Group in Warwick.In his office is a model of the building, which ...
S. Carolina: he grows stronger in times of stress. (Palmetto Ford owner Manly Eubank)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... CHARLESTON (POP. 76,854)In 1994, the U.S. Defense Department closed Charleston Naval Base and Charleston Naval Shipyard, eliminating more than 20,000 jobs.Manly Eubank, the city's current Chamber of Commerce president, worried about how long it would take Charleston to ...
Tennessee: sleepy town grows up; so does native dealer. (Franklin Buick-Pontiac-GMC owner Leslie Cain)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... FRANKLIN (POP. 25,323)When she was a kid 30 years ago, the little town of Franklin, Tenn., didn't have much to offer Leslie Cain except a nice place to live.Twenty miles south of Nashville, Franklin wasn't really a suburb. It was just a quiet city of 8,500. People drove ...
Texas: loyalty, tenure are a winning mixture. (James Wood Motors)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... DECATUR (POP. 4,540)If longevity and dedication are keys to success, the sales team at James Wood Motors Inc. is doing its part to keep the north Texas dealership healthy."The majority of our salespeople have been with us a long time," said James Wood, owner of the ...
Utah: Paulos is having too much fun to quit. (Gus Paulos Chevrolet-Geo)(Face of the Dealer)
Feb 03, 1997; ... WEST VALLEY CITY (POP. 94,663)One thing certain in 1997 for Gus Paulos Chevrolet-Geo in West Valley City, Utah, is that the owner's enthusiasm will continue to spill into the nearby streets as people drive by.Paulos, a third-generation automobile and truck dealer, says he ...